For preview coverage of the 49th Utah Arts Festival, which runs June 19-12, The Utah Review is presenting individual or group ...

Early summer is always special at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA). The Utah Review looks at two of the latest ...

The arresting amount of detail in Amanda Smith’s fairy tale works of oil painted on ceramics immediately captures the viewer’s eyes in Trust Issues but, upon focused inspection, this deluge of visual ...

Percussionists have become a staple in recent NOVA Chamber Music Series seasons and the forthcoming American Gamelan season closer will illuminate the fact that while percussion orchestras might not ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Utah Review is grateful to playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett for reviewing From the Borderlands to the Roots, presented by Punto de Inflexión as part of the ten-day Corriente Alterna ...

“Out of old tales, we must make new lives,” the great literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun once wrote. For London audiences still feeling weary after World War II, the Cinderella fairy tale took on a ...

The 2023 National Geographic documentary The Mission, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, captured the story of John Chau, 26, an Oral Roberts University graduate and evangelical missionary who ...

This year’s Sundance slate included short film programs, including focused tracks in animation, documentary and midnight-appropriate stories. The slate is filled with outstanding examples of the short ...

One of the Sundance Film Festival’s greatest impacts has been as a prominent venue in the Western world to shine the light of humanity on documentaries and narrative features from places where erasure ...

When the McMillan Library, the oldest in Nairobi and the second oldest in Kenya, was opened in 1931, it was never intended to be used by Africans. Not until Kenya established its independence in the ...

Among its fabulous strengths, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, directed by Elegance Bratton and produced by Chester Algernal Gordon, presents a compelling portrait of the wistful utopian history ...

Cast of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical!, by Mo Willems, Tom Warburton and Deborah Wicks La Puma, Directed by Penelope Caywood, Salt Lake Acting Company. Photo: Todd Collins ...